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Axion-like particles (ALPs), predicted in theories beyond the Standard Model, can have observational effects on the transparency of the Universe to $\gamma$ rays in the presence of magnetic fields. In this work, we search for effects…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-30 Rolf Buehler , Galo Gallardo , Gernot Maier , Alberto Domínguez , Marcos López , Manuel Meyer

We perform a feasibility study of a beam dump experiment at the International Linear Collider (ILC). To investigate the sensitivity to new light particles at the experiment, we consider models for axion-like particles (ALPs) and a light…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-24 Yasuhito Sakaki , Daiki Ueda

If the dark matter in the Universe is made of $\mu$eV axion-like particles (ALPs), then a rich phenomenology can emerge in connection to their stimulated decay into two photons. We discuss the ALP stimulated decay induced by electromagnetic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-09 Elisa Todarello , Francesca Calore , Marco Regis

Axion-like particles (ALPs) can couple to photons in strong magnetic fields, producing characteristic fluctuations in X-ray spectra. Using data from NASA's Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), we analyzed three pulsars: PSR…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-10 Yen-Jhen Liu , Yi Yang

We investigate axion-like particles (ALPs) in the context of asymptotically safe gravity-matter systems. The ALP-photon interaction, which facilitates experimental searches for ALPs, is a dimension-5-operator. Quantum fluctuations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-07 Gustavo P. de Brito , Astrid Eichhorn , Rafael R. Lino dos Santos

In this paper, we explore the phenomenology of massive Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) coupled to quarks and gluons, dubbed 'QCD ALPs', with an emphasis on the associated low-energy observables. ALPs coupled to gluons and quarks not only induce…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-20 Alessandro Lella , Eike Ravensburg , Pierluca Carenza , M. C. David Marsh

The existence of axions or Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) has been predicted by various Beyond Standard Model (BSM) theories, and the proposed photon-ALP interaction is one of the ways to probe them. Such an interaction will lead to photon-ALP…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-03 Harsh Mehta , Suvodip Mukherjee

If axion-like particles (ALPs) constitute a major part of dark matter (DM), due to the bosonic nature and a relative small mass, they could behave differently from the point like dark matter particles on the formation of the cosmic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-11 Qiaoli Yang , Haoran Di

Heavy axion-like particles (ALPs), with masses up to a few 100 keV and coupled with photons can be efficiently produced in stellar plasmas, contributing to a significant energy-loss. This argument has been applied to helium burning stars in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-30 Giuseppe Lucente , Oscar Straniero , Pierluca Carenza , Maurizio Giannotti , Alessandro Mirizzi

The first FASER search for a light, long-lived particle decaying into a pair of photons is reported. The search uses LHC proton-proton collision data at $\sqrt{s}=13.6~\text{TeV}$ collected in 2022 and 2023, corresponding to an integrated…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-12-18 FASER collaboration , Roshan Mammen Abraham , Xiaocong Ai , John Anders , Claire Antel , Akitaka Ariga , Tomoko Ariga , Jeremy Atkinson , Florian U. Bernlochner , Emma Bianchi , Tobias Boeckh , Jamie Boyd , Lydia Brenner , Angela Burger , Franck Cadoux , Roberto Cardella , David W. Casper , Charlotte Cavanagh , Xin Chen , Eunhyung Cho , Dhruv Chouhan , Andrea Coccaro , Stephane Débieux , Monica D'Onofrio , Ansh Desai , Sergey Dmitrievsky , Radu Dobre , Sinead Eley , Yannick Favre , Deion Fellers , Jonathan L. Feng , Carlo Alberto Fenoglio , Didier Ferrere , Max Fieg , Wissal Filali , Elena Firu , Edward Galantay , Ali Garabaglu , Stephen Gibson , Sergio Gonzalez-Sevilla , Yuri Gornushkin , Carl Gwilliam , Daiki Hayakawa , Michael Holzbock , Shih-Chieh Hsu , Zhen Hu , Giuseppe Iacobucci , Tomohiro Inada , Luca Iodice , Sune Jakobsen , Hans Joos , Enrique Kajomovitz , Hiroaki Kawahara , Alex Keyken , Felix Kling , Daniela Köck , Pantelis Kontaxakis , Umut Kose , Rafaella Kotitsa , Susanne Kuehn , Thanushan Kugathasan , Lorne Levinson , Ke Li , Jinfeng Liu , Yi Liu , Margaret S. Lutz , Jack MacDonald , Chiara Magliocca , Toni Mäkelä , Lawson McCoy , Josh McFayden , Andrea Pizarro Medina , Matteo Milanesio , Théo Moretti , Mitsuhiro Nakamura , Toshiyuki Nakano , Laurie Nevay , Ken Ohashi , Hidetoshi Otono , Lorenzo Paolozzi , Brian Petersen , Titi Preda , Markus Prim , Michaela Queitsch-Maitland , Hiroki Rokujo , André Rubbia , Jorge Sabater-Iglesias , Osamu Sato , Paola Scampoli , Kristof Schmieden , Matthias Schott , Anna Sfyrla , Davide Sgalaberna , Mansoora Shamim , Savannah Shively , Yosuke Takubo , Noshin Tarannum , Ondrej Theiner , Eric Torrence , Oscar Ivan Valdes Martinez , Svetlana Vasina , Benedikt Vormwald , Di Wang , Yuxiao Wang , Eli Welch , Yue Xu , Samuel Zahorec , Stefano Zambito , Shunliang Zhang

Axion-like particles (ALPs) can decay into two photons with a rest-frame frequency given by half of the ALP mass. This implies that ultra-violet searches can be used to investigate ALPs in the multi-eV mass range. We use archival data from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-30 Elisa Todarello , Marco Regis

Oscillations from high energy photons into light pseudoscalar particles in an external magnetic field are expected to occur in some extensions of the standard model. It is usually assumed that those axionlike particles (ALPs) could produce…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-09-13 Denis Wouters , Pierre Brun

We propose a search for long lived axion-like particles (ALPs) in exotic top decays. Flavour-violating ALPs appear as low energy effective theories for various new physics scenarios such as t-channel dark sectors or Froggatt-Nielsen models.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-21 Adrian Carmona , Fatemeh Elahi , Christiane Scherb , Pedro Schwaller

We review the current status of the anomalies in stellar cooling and argue that, among the new physics candidates, an axion-like particle would represent the best option to account for the hinted additional cooling.

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-01 Maurizio Giannotti

In this work we revisit five different point sources within or behind galaxy clusters in order to constrain the coupling constant between axion-like particles (ALPs) and photons. We use three distinct machine learning (ML) techniques and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-15 Simon Schallmoser , Sven Krippendorf , Francesca Chadha-Day , Jochen Weller

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are interesting dark matter candidates both from the theoretical as well as from the experimental perspective. Usually they are motivated as pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone bosons. In this case one of their most important…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-01 Gonzalo Alonso-Álvarez , Joerg Jaeckel

Axionlike particles (ALPs) are hypothetical light (sub-eV) bosons predicted in some extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics. In astrophysical environments comprising high-energy gamma rays and turbulent magnetic fields, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-02-19 H. E. S. S. Collaboration , A. Abramowski , F. Acero , F. Aharonian , F. Ait Benkhali , A. G. Akhperjanian , E. Angüner , G. Anton , S. Balenderan , A. Balzer , A. Barnacka , Y. Becherini , J. Becker Tjus , K. Bernlöhr , E. Birsin , E. Bissaldi , J. Biteau , C. Boisson , J. Bolmont , P. Bordas , J. Brucker , F. Brun , P. Brun , T. Bulik , S. Carrigan , S. Casanova , M. Cerruti , P. M. Chadwick , R. Chalme-Calvet , R. C. G. Chaves , A. Cheesebrough , M. Chrétien , S. Colafrancesco , G. Cologna , J. Conrad , C. Couturier , M. Dalton , M. K. Daniel , I. D. Davids , B. Degrange , C. Deil , P. deWilt , H. J. Dickinson , A. Djannati-Ataï , W. Domainko , L. O'C. Drury , G. Dubus , K. Dutson , J. Dyks , M. Dyrda , T. Edwards K. Egberts , P. Eger , P. Espigat , C. Farnier , S. Fegan , F. Feinstein , M. V. Fernandes , D. Fernandez , A. Fiasson , G. Fontaine , A. Förster , M. Füssling , M. Gajdus , Y. A. Gallant , T. Garrigoux , H. Gast , B. Giebels , J. F. Glicenstein , D. Göring , M. -H. Grondin , M. Grudzińska , S. Häffner , J. D. Hague , J. Hahn , J. Harris , G. Heinzelmann , G. Henri , G. Hermann , O. Hervet , A. Hillert , J. A. Hinton , W. Hofmann , P. Hofverberg , M. Holler , D. Horns , A. Jacholkowska , C. Jahn , M. Jamrozy , M. Janiak , F. Jankowsky , I. Jung , M. A. Kastendieck , K. Katarzyński , U. Katz , S. Kaufmann , B. Khélifi , M. Kieffer , S. Klepser , D. Klochkov , W. Kluźniak , T. Kneiske , D. Kolitzus , Nu. Komin , K. Kosack , S. Krakau , F. Krayzel , P. P. Krüger , H. Laffon , G. Lamanna , J. Lefaucheur , M. Lemoine-Goumard , J. -P. Lenain , D. Lennarz , T. Lohse , A. Lopatin , C. -C. Lu , V. Marandon , A. Marcowith , R. Marx , G. Maurin , N. Maxted , M. Mayer , T. J. L. McComb , M. C. Medina , J. Méhault , U. Menzler , M. Meyer , R. Moderski , M. Mohamed , E. Moulin , T. Murach , C. L. Naumann , M. de Naurois , D. Nedbal , J. Niemiec , S. J. Nolan , L. Oakes , S. Ohm , E. de Oña Wilhelmi , B. Opitz , M. Ostrowski , I. Oya , M. Panter , R. D. Parsons , M. Paz Arribas , N. W. Pekeur , G. Pelletier , J. Perez , P. -O. Petrucci , B. Peyaud , S. Pita , H. Poon , G. Pühlhofer , M. Punch , A. Quirrenbach , S. Raab , M. Raue , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , M. Renaud , R. de los Reyes , F. Rieger , L. Rob , S. Rosier-Lees , G. Rowell , B. Rudak , C. B. Rulten , V. Sahakian , D. A. Sanchez , A. Santangelo , R. Schlickeiser , F. Schüssler , A. Schulz , U. Schwanke , S. Schwarzburg , S. Schwemmer , H. Sol , G. Spengler , F. Spies , L. Stawarz , R. Steenkamp , C. Stegmann , F. Stinzing , K. Stycz , I. Sushch , A. Szostek , J. -P. Tavernet , R. Terrier , M. Tluczykont , C. Trichard , K. Valerius , C. van Eldik , G. Vasileiadis , C. Venter , A. Viana , P. Vincent , H. J. Völk , F. Volpe , M. Vorster , S. J. Wagner , P. Wagner , M. Ward , M. Weidinger , Q. Weitzel , R. White , A. Wierzcholska , P. Willmann , A. Wörnlein , D. Wouters , M. Zacharias , A. Zajczyk , A. A. Zdziarski , A. Zech , H. -S. Zechlin

Axion-like particles (ALPs), which are very light neutral spin zero elusive particles primarily interacting with two photons and predicted by superstring and superbrane theories, have come to help by solving two distinct problems about…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-20 Giorgio Galanti , Marco Roncadelli , Fabrizio Tavecchio

Axion Like Particles (ALPs) belong to a well motivated class of particles which are part of a more complete UV theory. In this work, we initiate and present the inclusion of such ALPs or the conventional axions in the Heavy Hadron Chiral…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-02 Namit Mahajan

There exists a growing evidence for the anomalous transparency of the Universe for energetic gamma rays. Popular explanations include conversion of photons into hypothetical axion-like particles (ALPs) and back in astrophysical magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-17 Sergey Troitsky